KZPCC-CE SCSI controller

[John Baldwin]

On Monday 01 August 2005 12:41 pm, José M. Fandiño wrote:
> Hello Wilko,
>
> Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > >   I got a DS20E which has a KZPCC-CE (LVD 3-ch, 64MB cache) SCSI
> > >
> > > will I be able to use this controller with FreeBSD?
> >
> > Well, I guess you are the first one to try this hardware.  I do
> > have DS20[E] available in the lab at work, but not this RAID card.
>
>  Well, I would like to try this card with FBSD.
>
> > Would be interesting to know if it works or not, then we can go and
> > add it into the default GENERIC for FreeBSD/alpha install cds.
>
>  but how is supposed I can test the controller under FreeBSD if
> FreeBSD can't detect it with the ISO images.
>
> some photos of the alpha gear, sorry for the bad quality and size
> fortunately for me I don't live of the photography ;)
>
> You can see the KZPCC card before I moved it to hose 0, it's
> weird because I have the manuals for the -CE model but there
> is a label with the -XE reference on it.

I asked the asr(4) driver maintainer and he said it isn't 64-bit clean, so it 
is almost certainly not going to work on Alpha without a lot of work.

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